Current mood: RUDENESS IS AN ART....
Category: RUDENESS IS AN ART.... Music
We haven't had a reading from the book of Mark for a while, but before we do, here's a date for your diaries...
MARK E SMITH
Wednesday, 16 July, 7.45pm @ The Queen Elizabeth Hall
Mark E Smith joins his biographer Austin Collings to discuss his extraordinary life as front man of The Fall. His book Renegade is the first time he has opened up in a full biography. Hear the honest account of a legendary band, by one of rock's true iconoclasts. 'Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the proper one' (Mark E Smith).
More info and tickets are here...
I'M THERE!!!
Yes boss, there are a good few people I'd pay to see talk, and Mr Smith is certainly one of them. Others include Boris Johnson, Liam & Noel Gallagher (together arguing amongst themselves only THEY MUST GET THEIR GUITARS OUT AND START ON THAT AWFUL PUB ROCK THEY DO!!!!!) and former footballer Ray Wilkins (to name but 4)......
Anyway, here follows todays chapter and verse taken from....
Renegade: The Lives & Tales Of Mark E Smith By Mark E Smith
'Degrees have a way of warping people - it's not good for people to spend that ammount of time at university, acting like rock stars on weekdays. They get so distanced from the real world they haven't a fucking clue what's needed. It's a luxurious prison, almost. Once they get out, once they're released, they're good for nothing other than having weekly reunions with their old housemates, getting jobs with their old housemates, or staying on to recieve more educational theraphy or forming piss-poor bands. And they've all got floppy fringes. They all wish it was 1980 and Joy Division were still around. Uniform mentality: my aim is to steer well clear of anything slightly resembling that.'
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